Today Duke plays Hampton is the NCAA tournament. Despite the fact that most basketball players are black, HBCUs have had a tough time competing with big schools who can offer scholarships. Still there are several basketball players from HBCUs who have had a major impact on basketball. 10. Pee Wee Kirkland Norfolk State University Despite […]

MONTGOMERY-One person was arrested and several other people are being sought after a massive brawl erupted at the Alabama State University cafeteria during lunchtime. WAKA.com reports: By looking at the video closely, you can see a police officer apparently get hit by a flying chair. Students tell us there were three other fights leading up […]

In a new survey taken by Yourblackworld.com, nearly 42 percent of Blacks who attended white universities never had a Black professor. Close to three quarters of Blacks only had one during their college career.

Elizabeth Hallaren, a 20-year-old white woman, says she is beginning to understand what it’s like to be a minority.

President Obama has shown a commendable willingness to shake up the status quo in K-12 education by advocating reforms, such as charter schools, that have left his teachers union base none-too-pleased. So it’s unfortunate that he has such a conventional approach to higher education, and to historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in particular.

Well, this week we celebrate four giant letters, folks… H– B – C – U.  That’s right, each year in mid-September, we recognize National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week.

The HBCU Network, a “24/7,” 365 days a year sports, “edutainment” and lifestyle network dedicated to the 105 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) across the United States, will launch in 2011, it was announced today by holding company C3 Media, LLC.  Designed to fill a void in the cable industry, the channel will be […]

President Barack Obama celebrated the accomplishments of America’s historically black colleges and universities on Monday, telling a group of leading African-American educators that while major progress has been made in expanding access to higher education, it’s time to “take stock of the work we have left to do.”

With the latest rankings of the top schools in the country recently released by U.S News & World Report, we at Newsone wanted to hear from you our readers.